India and Canada are in talks to sign a nuclear cooperation pact soon. Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper is visiting India on 15 and 16 November, 2009 and the deal in all likelihood will be signed then. Meanwhile, Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd, or AECL, is in talks with three private sector Indian power generation companies, including Anil Ambani’s Reliance Power Ltd, for setting up nuclear power generation plants based on its Candu (Canada Deuterium Uranium) reactor.

A year after Canada changed its long-standing non-proliferation policy in order to help India join the international trade in nuclear supplies, the country’s  plans to participate in India’s booming nuclear industry have slowed down due to meager economic ties between the two nations. Talks with New Delhi on a deal to allow Canadian companies to supply India’s nuclear industry are yet to begin.

Nuclear energy has reappeared on the agendas of some nations seeking energy security. With memories of this winter's gas price row between Russia and Ukraine still fresh, the Czech and Slovak governments are taking another look at the promise....

Russia, a large supplier of nuclear-reactor fuel to Europe and Asia, has signed its first purely commercial contract to supply low-enriched uranium to United States utilities worth one billion dollars. This was first such deals between the two countries.